From left, Lakesha Allen, a staff member with Richmond Public Schools’ new Center for Families in Transition program, and Superintendent Jason Kamras, pause to talk after delivering food and household products to RPS parent Demeka Artis and her children, Amica, 8, Jeremiah, 14, and Kemiya, 16, at their new apartment in Highland Park.
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RPS program aims to bring stability, academic success to homeless students and their families
For Demeka Artis and her three children, home was, for more than a year, bouncing from hotel to hotel and worrying about food and paying bills.